Crazy thing I saw in the gym tonight......

If someone is doing something clearly wrong /dangerous then politely ask them if you can give them a couple of pointers.
If they don't want any advice then what more can you do.
In all honesty, If an experienced trainer offered me advice and commented on a poor teqnuqie of something i was doing then i personally would be grateful for the tips.
Im sure there are people that would let their pride get in the way and would rather do it their way though.

B80


Thats one thing that does annoy me in the gym is people squatting about 1/4 deph.

There was a guy in my gym this morning doing leg presses with a range of movement of about 20cm.
I left him to it - what he does is up to him.
Most of the people in my gym are girls doing really high reps at really light weights and I leave them to it also.

How can you get annoyed at someone doing partial squats/leg presses/bench press etc etc??

I find it interesting watching some people get a kick out lifting far too heavy a weight for their ability with poor ROM.
If they feel proud of their achievement, bully for them.
If they injure themselves in the process and the result is one less person hogging the squat rack/bench press, bully for me.

One twat at my gym commented on my box squat depth and said, "You're not going to like this but you're not actually going to parallel."

I knew I wasn't going to parallel, I purposely set the box up so it wasn't parallel. I didn't need this douchebag to tell me what I already knew.

He then had the audacity to squat afterwards and not reach parallel himself.

Do you want to know the real reason why people feel compelled to tell others that they're not going deep enough - because the other person is lifting more weight than they are and they're jealous so they try to belittle them by pointing out their ROM error.

iaink

jules.j

jack5r


That is actualy an exercise used to help with stones although I don't the guy doing it realised that lol.

Round back good mornings.

Sounds like a great way to put your back out.

Or strengthin it :)

I'm not convinced. Rounding your back whilst having a heavy weight on the top of the thoracic spine is asking for trouble IMO.

I wouldn't acomment on someones ROM as it just seems rude and you never know there may be a good reason for it. In most cases I don;t think there is though.

tbh I squat more than anyone else at my gym (I'm not strong compared to most of you guys, but strong for a commercial gym) so its no jealousy on my behalf.

I've probably seen 10 people, if that, squatting since I started at this gym 3 years ago and bar the odd one or 2, none of them squat to decent deph. Fair enough if you're doing partials for a specific reason, but the main reason most of them don't squat to parallel is because it because it becomes a much harder lift the further you travel, or in some cases, theres to much weight on the bar and they won't be coming back up if they go that low.

Its these same people that then whinge and complain that they're not getting the results they want and look at people at me and say STEROIDS!

GT_PT


I'd feel obliged to say something for two reasons.

1. I'm a senior member of staff at a gym and would feel the need to ask why he was doing such an awkward exercise and what he was trying to work.  I wouldn't just say thats wrong, because i duno what he's doing it for!

2. Having suffered a major back injury myself even if i wasnt a PT or in the industry i would feel the need to ask why he was doing it that way?

Anybody else in the industry feel the same?

GT

 
I'm the same on points 1 & 2 mate.
 
I work in a corperate gym at the head office of a large supermarket chain so its the same old faces in the gym normally.
 
So if I see someone doing something dangerous or stupid I useually just go and take the bar off them without a word and walk off with it lol.
 
(Of course I explain afterwards why I did it and teach correct form afterwards)